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A SERMON 

DELIVERED BEFORE THE 

Young Men's Christian Association 
Of Cincinnati, 

BY 

Rev. WAYLAND HOYT, 

At the Ninth Street Baptist Church, July 29, '66. 
ALSO, A 

PROSPECTUS OF THE WORK 

OF THE 

Y. M. C. A. 



CINCINNATI : 

Published by the Association, aco and 202 Vine St. 

1866. 













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A SERMON 

BY 

Rev. Wayland Hoyt, 




"And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and 
let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised ; it may be that 
the Lord will work for us : for there is no restraint to the Lord to save 
by many or by few. And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is 
in thy heart : turn thee ; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart." 

I Samuel, xiv, 6-7. 

It was a sad time for Israel. The land of promise was not 
in any true sense, the land of possession. Long had the an- 
cient and most powerful enemies of the Israelites sorely pressed 
them. From the sea way back almost to the Jordan, through the 
southern part of Palestine, the Philistines were in the ascendant. 
Sanctuaries of Dagon crowned many a hilltop. The country had 
become Philistine almost as much as Spain in the ninth cen- 
tury, had become Musselman, At Ramah, close by one of the 
prophetic schools, was a garrison or exacting officer of the 
Philistines. At Michmash was another. At Geba another. 
As regularly as the grain w^aved golden at harvest time, so reg- 
ularly did the Philistines swoop down to seize it. The Hebrews 
were disarmed. "There was no smith found throughout all the 
land of Israel, for the Philistines said, lest the Hebrews make 
them swords or spears, but all the Hebrews went down to the 





SERMON. 



Philistines" — that is, to the garrisons which the Philistines main- 
tained in various parts of the land — "to sharpen every man his 
share, and his coulter, and his ax, and his mattock. So it 
came to pass, in the day of battle, that there was neither sword 
nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were 
with Saul and Jonathan" — though doubtless the Israelites pos- 
sessed some other weapons, such as slings, bows and arrows, 
and ox goads — u but only in the hands of Saul, the king, and 
of Jonathan, his son, were there swords and spears." 

The fires, long smouldering, burst at last into flame. Jona- 
than attacked and routed the garrison of Philistines at Geba. 
Saul blew the war trumpet. The men of Israel gathered to the 
battle; the Philistines also. But the Israelites were panic struck. 
The people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, 
and in high places, and in pits. Some turned traitors. The army 
of Saul dwindled to six hundred men. These were at Geba, the 
fortress wrested from the Philistines by Jonathan. Over there — 
with a ravine of about a mile in width between — armed, and up- 
on a high promontory, in plain sight, thousands of the Philistines 
were encamped at Michmash. 

Then Jonathan — whose character by the way, is one of the 
noblest in Scripture story — in God's name and in God's strength, 
determines to venture for His cause. With heroic faith, united 
to heroic action — and it is only when these two are married, that 
the child of any result is born — he rises to meet the emergency. 
"Come," he says to his armor-bearer, "Let us go over, let us cross 
the deep chasm to the garrison of the Philistines. It may 
be that Jehovah will work for us, for there is no restraint for 
Jehovah to save by many or by few." His armor-bearer accepts 
the hazard. Just at the thither edge of the chasm, the two war- 
riors emerge from behind the rocks. The Philistines joke with 
each other as they see the men approaching, and say, "Behold 
the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they have hid 
themselves;" and they tauntingly challenge them, "Come up, 
and we will show you a thing." The two men accept the chal- 
lenge. They go up. In God's name they strike. The Philistines 
fall before them ; a great trembling seizes the host of them; 



SERMON. 



the earth quakes ; God is working for Jonathan. The watch- 
men of Saul see their enemies melting away. Saul calls to the 
battle. Now, in the time of success, the cowards return to duty; 
Saul's army swells. His men sweep down the defile, rush up 
the opposite side, overwhelm their enemies. The Philistines flee. 
The battle sweeps clean across the country, from the extreme 
eastern to the extreme western pass. The Philistines are utterly 
discomfited. The country is saved. Jonathan's faith and Jon- 
athan's valor have wrought illustrious victory for Israel. 

My friends, it has seemed to me that this ancient story may 
furnish much fitting illustration of the condition of the young 
men in our city, and of the work which the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association is seeking to do for them. 

Hither the young men throng. The great cities are the 
centers of life, and life will inevitably flow to them. The young 
men come from the quiet of the country into the tumult and 
strangeness of the city. They come from the well known into the 
entirely unknown. They come at that time of life when impres- 
sions of all sorts are most easily received — when character is 
fluid and runs quickly into the mould of circumstance. They 
come from pure homes, they come from beneath a mothers ben- 
edictions, they came from under the sheltering shield of a father's 
counsel — children of the church many of them — Hebrews of the 
Hebrews. Hither they throng by thousands; young men, the 
hope of the republic, the hope of the church, with all the possi- 
bilities and energies of an eternal future, wrapt up in the breast 
of each; hither they come, for weal or for woe, for salvation or 
for ruin. 



THE CITY THE ENEMY S COUNTRY. 

But the city is an enemy's country. The Philistines are in 
the ascendant. They have overrun it, and are in great measure 
masters of it. Temples of Satan, gorgeous in appointment and 
affluent in allurement, are reared everywhere. Garrisons of sin 
hold every street corner. The city is Philistine. The young 
man is thronged about with dangers, and pressed on every side 
by enemies. Consider for a moment some of these. 



SERMON. 



HOMELESSNESS. 

There is homelessness. The saddest word, as it seems to me, 
in all our speech, describes the condition of the large majority 
of the young men thronging a city like this — they are homeless. 
You who look out into the street through the windows of pleas- 
ant homes; you, surrounded always by the companionships, 
the dear delights, the soothing and satisfying music of home, 
think little, perhaps, of the souls freighted with an agony of 
loneliness, floating daily past your doors. You are on some 
tropic island with your feet on the firm ground, the ground 
carpeted with the greenest grass and embroidered with radiant 
flowers, while above you trees stretch their grateful shade and 
bend their burdened boughs within your reach. They are toss- 
ing on the ocean, surged hither and thither by the tides, with 
only dreary wastes of waters around and dreary wastes of sky 
above — alone, just floating on a bit of plank. 0, the thousand 
young hearts filled with homelessness in a city like our own. 
Have you ever had but for a day the homeless feeling? Have 
you ever walked through miles and miles of streets, finding not 
an answering smile of recognition in a single face, with the 
door of not a single house of all you pass thrown open for your 
entrance? Multiply that one day by the number of days that 
fill a year, and think what ponderous sorrow many of our young 
men must stagger under. There is just the boarding house 
with its barren parlor, unhomelike there — with its small or 
crowded sleeping room — fuel is extra in the winter, and at the 
present prices many young men cannot afford anything extra — 
terribly unhomelike there, there is the store or shop in which 
all day severe work must be done; there is the line of unwel- 
coming street between, and that is all. No pleasant corner 
for retirement — no opportunity for privacy, no uplifting and 
restful companionship. Nothing — but the boarding place and 
the working place, and the street, and the sick heart. 

0, friends what wonder, that right here, as I believe it does 
oftenest, the integrity of young men breaks down. What wonder 
that amid such a fearful straining the strongest cable of resolu- 



SERMON. 



tion snaps, and the ship of the soul dashes on into the breakers 

of dissipation. What wonder, that with all the weariness of 

the day's work upon them, with all the longings for sympathy 

and friendly intercourse unmet, and pressing down the burdened 

heart, with only the stifling atmosphere of loneliness around 

them; what wonder, that with something of the fateful feeling 

of the poor unfortunate — 

Mad from life's history, 
Glad to death's mystery ; 
Swift to be hurled 
Anywhere, anywhere, 
Out of the world ! 

They plunge into the dark, wild river of excess. 

Alas, for the rarity 
Of Christian charity 
Under the sun. 
O, it is pitiful, 
Near a whole city full, 
Home they have none. 

God help the young men while this Philistine danger of 
homelessness presses down upon them. 



BAD ASSOCIATES. 

There are the Philistine associates of the city. Evil is in stron- 
ger force than good in the city. There are more wicked men 
in it than there are virtuous men ; and besides, evil is more 
aggressive and pervading ; goodness is more secluded and reti- 
ring. It ought not be so, but it is, and therefore, one of these 
homeless young men is about ten times more likely to fall in 
with bad associates than with good. And in this homeless state 
a man is singularly open to all approaches of friendship. I 
have read that soldiers on a long march become so hungry that, 
though their rations come to them soiled and mouldy, they 
cannot wait to cleanse them. And a man in this homeless 
state is so famishing for friendship, he is not apt to wait to see 
whether the stain and mould of sin is on its face. And it is 
at just this ready receptivity for friendship that Satan enters. 
The emmissaries of sin array themselves in the garb of friend- 



SERMON. 



ship. With all pleasant speeches and guileful arts they wind 
their toils about young men, until, like the fly in the spiders 
web, they are captured utterly. Business houses have their 
runners soliciting trade — Sin has its runners, whose infernal 
work it is to decoy the pure hearted into sin. They swarm 
everywhere. Every uncorrupted young man they consider their 
rightful prey. They are inspired with devilish ingenuity. They 
are full of tireless energy. They exist only to suck their mis- 
erable lives out of the ruined souls of those about whom they 
have spun their webs. 

And then, besides such bad associates as these, banded for 
the destruction of the good, the pure young man is necessarily 
thrust into a general society greatly corrupt. By converse with 
the common run of young men with whom he may be thrown 
into the contact of companionship, his own moral tone is likely 
to be lowered. Your soft iron in the circle of the battery will be- 
come magnetic. The young man, through whose heart is always 
pulsating the lower moral sentiment of the irreligious young 
men around him, will himself become, at least in some measure, 
charged with that lower moral sentiment. Vice will grad- 
ually begin to seem less vicious. Sin will insensibly appear less 
sinful. The naturally depraved heart will become marvelously 
active in the manufacture of the opiates of all excuses, with 
which to put conscience to sleep. Until at last sin is committed 
without compunction and the young man is ruined. The young 
men of a city are pressed on every side by the Philistines of evil 
associates. There are the 

BAD RECREATIONS OF THE CITY. 

Recreation is an absolute necessity. You cannot always 
be tense with the strain of work. The Lord Jesus himself, 
after an exhausting day of preaching and healing must forbear 
a little, saying to the disciples, "come ye yourselves apart into 
a desert place and rest awhile." Recreation is rightful. Religion 
is not long facedness, and moroseness — an isolation from and 
a frowning down upon human joys ; that is a libel upon religion ; 
it is not religion. The religion which Christ preaches is joyful 
and sunny hearted. After work a man must re-create his ener- 



SERMON. 



gies for further work. Amusement — that sometimes a man must 
have — simple, relaxing amusement, and the further removed it 
is from what is commonly called improvement, the better. You 
cannot trundle the load of life in a lumber wagon — it jolts too 
much — you must ease matters by putting underneath the springs 
of recreation. 

THE VESTIBULE OF HELL. 

But now the trouble about it is that sin has captured almost 
all the methods of recreation and prostituted them to its own 
use. They are garrisoned by the Philistines. There is the 
theatre, — "it is the vestibule of hell," says a distinguished man 
who in early life had known it. AndMacready, himself an actor, 
when he left the stage bought a home far away from London, that 
the enticement of the theatre might not ensnare his children, and 
swore this great oath : " None of my children shall ever, with 
my consent, or on any pretense, enter a theatre, or have any 
visiting connection with actors and actresses." 

THE BILLIARD SALOONS. 

If you only go along the street and notice the sign of young 
men hung about their doors, you will get idea enough of the 
infernal work done in them. 

THE GAMBLING HELL. 

There, between the upper and nether millstone of Satanic 
cunning and Satanic cupidity, truth, purity, honest hearts, are 
ground to powder. And wreathed about with flowers, and lux- 
urious in appointment, and soliciting with bad enchantment as 
the house of the strange woman is — it is the gateway to destruc- 
tion. Though her lips drop as any honey comb, and her mouth 
is smoother than oil, her feet do go down to death, her steps 
take hold on hell. The homeless young man, weary with work, 
longing for some restful and necessary pleasure, is surrounded 
everywhere with these Philistine enemies, bad recreations. 
There is the 

BAD LITERATURE OF THE CITY. 

Milton calls a good book "the precious life blood of a mas- 
ter spirit embalmed and treasured up to a life beyond life." 



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SERMON. 



And a bad book is the life blood of an evil spirit treasured up 
to a life beyond life, whose continual result shall be the devas- 
tation of truth and purity. And here in the city bad books, 
like bad men, throng. The young man, as another says, "makes 
his first time purchase of the licentious novel or the high spiced 
play. The stimulus stirs his biood; the poison enters into his 
soul; the corruption spreads. Timidity and reluctance are 
overcome. Again and again he reads, until even the wonders 
and horrors and licentiousness of French romance pall upon 
him. And then he steals, after dark, to those stalls where 
books are sold of which it is a shame even to speak. And then 
he betakes himself to those scenes of infamy and guilt to which 
they are the directors and guides." 

BAD BUSINESS INFLUENCES. 

And then, besides all these things, there are the ten thousand 
evil influences of the city — the bad maxims of trade — the rush 
for money, through the path of honesty if you can, through the 
path of dishonesty if you must; the Sabbath breaking of the 
city, — where great newspaper and other corporations, and fol- 
lowing in their lead thousands of people, — stride across the com- 
mand, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," as though 
it were worthy of no more notice than is the thread the spider 
throws across your path on a summer morning; the generally 
unhealthful moral atmoshere of the city. Heaven knows, there 
are dangers and enemies enough. The city is Philistine. Sin, 
not righteousness, is in the ascendant. 

WHERE IS THE CHURCH? 

And now the question arises: Is the church, as such, specially 
active in rescuing and caring for these young men ? It is a mel- 
ancholy truth, but it is still true — -she is not. I do believe that 
the proportion of the membership of the church actively engaged 
in real aggressive work is not much greater than was the pro- 
portion of Saul's army which remained true to him during that 
invasion of the Philistines. Many are hid in the caves, and 
thickets, and vales, and pits of worldliness. They are buried in 
self service; they do not come out into Christ's service. Many 



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have turned traitors, and have gone clean over to the Philistines. 
They speak the Philistine language, and wear the Philistine 
uniform, and dwell in the Philistine camp. In their attention 
to the world's work they have forgotten Christ's work. How 
many employers, professedly Christian, are there in this city 
who are entirely careless as to how or where their employees 
spend their Sabbaths. How many merchants before me have 
had personal and tender religious conversations with their 
clerks, understanding their temptations, attempting to relieve 
their difficulties, pointing them earnestly to Him who alone can 
save ? 

Why, the truth is, thousands of youno- men rush to ruin right 
by our church doors. And the church herself is in great meas- 
ure asleep or chattering with fear. I know that in the army of 
Israel there are many noble exceptions — I know that still loyal 
hearts gather round the standards of the Master ; but it is yet 
true, — the available forces of the church are not marshaled for 
successful conflict with these Philistine hosts gathering about 
our young men. 

My friends, concerning this special matter, the Young Men's 
Christian Association is 

THE JONATHAN OF THE CHURCH. 

It is but as one man compared with the multitude of enemies 
it must meet ; but faith has taught it that there is no restraint 
to the Lord to save by many or by few ; and though thousands 
of the Philistines crowd the passes of Michmash, in God's name 
it shall go out to fight them. But yet, since, whenever we at- 
tempt anything relying upon Divine aid, we must first do all 
we can ourselves ; since supernatural aid is only given us at that 
point where our own human power fails, and not a hair's breadth 
this side ; since, as some body else has so well put it, "God car- 
ries his people only when they cannot walk, he pities our weak- 
ness, but not our sloth;" since Jonathan, when determining to 
venture for God did not forget his armor, but with shield and 
sword and spear went forth to fight, believing that if helped at 
all he would be helped through these arms, — so neither will this 



SERMON. 



Jonathan slothfully and carelessly rush into conflict unarmed, 
but will provide himself with armor the most perfect possible, 
with weapons the most approved. 

Bear with me, then, a moment, while I describe the arms of 
this Jonathan — the means through which he shall accomplish, 
for God's glory and for human good. 



A HOME FOR YOUNG MEN. 

This Association shall furnish a kind of home for the young 
men. The boarding place is bare and desolate ; the bedroom 
has only its common bed and table and un carpeted floor, and 
staring walls. This Association shall meet this hostile home- 
lessness, driving young men into dissipation. It shall open 
pleasant rooms; they shall be neatly carpeted ; pictures shall 
adorn the walls ; the rooms shall hold comfortable furniture. 
Something of home-likeness shall grace them. There shall be 
some other refuge for a young man than the street and the bar 
room. There shall be some pleasant place to spend an evening. 
I think that is practical Christianity. It seems to me that with 
such a vantage ground, you can preach with hope of success the 
wrong and folly of sin; the obligation and reason of righteous- 
ness. I fear the sermon simply would have little effect. This 
is the Savior's way of doing, not simply preaching to the hungry 
but feeding the hungry. 

GOOD ASSOCIATES. 

In like manner, by throwing around young men good compan- 
ionships, this Association shall attempt to fight the Philistines of 
bad companionships. The men who meet at the rooms, shall be 
christian young men. The acquaintance there first formed shall 
advance and become the gate through which the young man shall 
pass into the pure and ennobling society of the city. Instead of 
serpents waiting to sting him, and vultures greedy to pluck him, 
the young man shall find friends to help him. And instead of 
losing moral tone, every plant of goodness in the young heart 
shall be stirred into thriftier growth by the stimulating atmos- 
phere of Christian sympathy. 



SERMON. 



HARMLESS RECREATIONS. 

And this terrible Philistine, this Goliath of Gath of bad 
recreations, this, too, shall this Association resist. Not, however, 
as has been often nnwisely done by ignoring the necessity of re- 
creation, by denying its rightfulness. I think the time for that 
has passed. I think the Church generally is growing wiser about 
this matter ; but the Association should meet ft by acknowledg- 
ing in the fullest way both the necessity and the rightfulness 
of recreation. There shall be in the rooms both opportunity 
and means for amusement. There shall be chess and checkers-, 
and back-gammon, and croquet, and other games of various 
sorts. There shall be music, too — a piano, perchance. 

HOW TO MEET THE DEVIL. 

At all events, for I cannot go into particulars, the devil 
shall be met on his own ground. It shall no longer be an axiom 
that Satan is absolute king over the entire domain of recreation. 
It shall be shown that the Christ who blessed the wedding feast 
and its festivities with his presence, may now be served not only 
by prayers and stern work, but also, in their right time and in 
their right measure, just as fully, by all right amusement. 

So also shall this Association meet the enemy of bad litera- 
ture — by furnishing good literature. And in the place of the 
generally irreligious influence of the city, it shall seek to exert 
an earnest and high-toned Christian influence. 

And so, by all these practical methods — and by all others 
which necessity shall discover — shall this Association do its 
Christly work of rescuing young men. By all these various 
weapons shall this Jonathan of the Church fight the Lord's 
battle. 

WHAT HAS BEEN DONE. 

But has this Association done anything as yet ? Is its work 
all future ? Go down to the Corner of John and Columbia 
Streets, and to the Bethel, at No. 30 Public Landing, and see 
what it is doing, or has done. There are the People's Coffee 
and Free Reading Rooms. A man may there get a large cup 
of pure coffee with crackers or their equivalent in bread for five 



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SERMON. 



cents. A man may there find a free reading room, comfortable 
and attractive, well supplied with papers and magazines from 
all sections of the country. There, strangers, persons without 
employment, and any others who have more or less leisure, are 
welcome to spend just as much time as they choose. Here, a 
man without going to a drinking saloon or other objectionable 
place, may obtain substantial refreshment at trifling cost. 
Here a man may find some other place than the street, and get 
a quiet corner for reading, writing, or conversation. This, 
truly is something accomplished ; this is practical work in the 
right direction. But 



WHAT SHALL BE DONE. 

I have used the future tense; this Association shall do so 
and so. I have thus spoken for a purpose. It shall do thus 
and thus, if you will help it. My friends, Jonathan could not 
go to the fight entirely alone; his armor bearer must go 
with him. Nor can this Jonathan of the church go forth 
alone; he must have his armor bearer. And now the question 
comes to-night : Will you, fathers of families ; will you, mem- 
bers of the church; will you, wealthy men of this great city, be 
his armor bearer ? Will you say the brave words over again ; 
"Do, Jonathan, all that is in thy heart; turn thee, lo, I am 
with thee according to thine heart ? " And as the conflict 
thickens, will you put into his hands the needed weapons, that 
he may deal destruction to the hosts of the Philistines ? These 
young men thronging our city, crowding the theatres, stagger- 
ing out of beer shops, selling heaven for sensual pleasure, may 
not be your sons, nor yours, nor yours, but they are somebody s 
sons. The head of some father is whitening with sorrow for 
them; the heart of some mother is burdened and tremulous 
with agony because of them. Will you aid in their rescue ? 
Will you be armor bearer for this Jonathan, who shall beat back 
the Philistine hordes gathering about them? 

Oliver Cromwell — staunch old Puritan that he was — could 
not brook the least approach to Popery. " What are these," he 
once inquired, as he saw a dozen silver statues in the niches of 



SERMON. 15 



a chapel. "The twelve apostles," replied the trembling Dean. 
" Take them down," said Cromwell, "and coin them into money, 
that they may go about doing good." It might be well for some 
of us to coin some of our silver luxuries into money, conse- 
crating it to putting abundant arms into the hands of this Jon- 
athan as he goes forth to fight. Will you help this Associa- 
tion ? Will you be its armor-bearer? Will you say, 'Yes, do 
all that is in thine heart ; turn thee, behold, we are with thee 
according to thine heart? " 




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Young Men's Christian Association 
of Cincinnati. 



ITS WORK. 



The facilities gained by its present location, and arrange- 
ment of rooms, will give to this Association greater power for 
the accomplishment of its special work, the good of young men, 
than it has ever before possessed. 

Its plans are by no means fully developed, the advice and 
co-operation of the whole community will be sought in perfecting 
them, and also in their execution. There is not one who, by 
personal effort or financial aid cannot do something towards the 
advancement of the class we hope to reach. 

Our aim is to provide a fireside for young men without 
homes, where the friendless can find friends, and the 
needy can receive aid. Young men of the city and strangers 
will by public invitations and personal applications of the mem- 
bers, be invited to make our rooms a place of resort in their leisure 
hours, and a Committee of the Society will be in attendance to otter 
the free use of our Library and of every facility of enjoyment which 
we maybe able to give. Our efforts will be especially directed to 
the introduction of strangers to suitable acquaintances through 
our sociables and otherwise, and when desired, to churches of 



OUR WORK. 



denominations preferred by them. Special care will be taken 
in the recommendation of suitable boarding places, and aid will 
be given young men in finding emyloyment. 

Our Library will consist mainly of practical books of refer- 
ence for use at the rooms : the popular works of the day will 
be of a choice and limited number. It is not our intention to 
supersede in any measure our Public Libraries, to which we will 
always take great pleasure in introducing strangers. The most 
valuable newspapers and periodicals of this and foreign coun- 
tries, (especially those which may be of practical use to the 
Mechanic and Merchant) will be upon our tables for the free 
use of members and visitors. 

Lectures will be delivered monthly, or oftener, by citizens, 
and invitations have already been extended to some of the 
principal literary men of the country to aid us in this depart- 
ment. As soon as possible we shall proceed to the formation 
of free classes of instruction in Mechanics, Mathematics, Chem- 
istry, Penmanship, and in every branch of learning having a 
practical reference to Mercantile and Mechanical pursuits. 
When a suitable number of applicants shall have been obtained 
in any branch, a competent individual as teacher will be 
found, and we hope our citizens and men of learning will 
always be ready to spend an hour or two each week as instruc- 
tors. 

Our Temperance Work is already known in our Coffee and 
Reading Rooms at the corner of Columbia and John streets, 
and ai the Bethel, No. 31 Public Landing, both which are emi- 
nently successful. The establishment ofotherrooms in three dif- 
ferent localities is now in contemplation. Funds have already 
been tendered for this purpose, and as soon as the expenses of 
our Central Rooms shall have been met, special attention will be 
given to this department. 

Our Christian Volunteers hold themselves in readiness to 
give Jiid in conference and prayer meetings whenever called, 
and to render any assistance possible in the directly religious 
work of the Society. Great good was accomplished by this 
effort during the Fall of 1865. 



OUR WORK. 19 



In all our work we hope never to forget the duties we owe to 
our Maker, and that our end and object is to bring ourselves 
and all whom we may influence nearer to Him. Love to God 
and man, and redemption through our blessed Saviour will be 
our themes: other and minor doctrines we shall leave to the 
Churches. 

We extend a cordial invitation to all to join us in our meet- 
ings of conference and prayer, held on the second Tuesday 
evening of each month, and of inquiry on the third Tuesday 
evening; in our daily prayer meetings, at half past twelve o'clock, 
and Bible Classes on Sabbath afternoon at a quarter past four 
o'clock. 

This enterprise calls for the sympathy and co operation of 
our business men who desire to contribute to the proper enjoy- 
ment of those under their employ, and to keep them from haunts 
of vice and infamy, of all citizens who value the security of their 
lives and property, and of all who love our Lord and Saviour, 
Jesus Christ. 

A hearty sympathy has thus far been manifested, and the fol- 
lowing liberal subscriptions have been given, viz.: 

C. W. Starbuck $100 

Chamberlain & Co 100 

Perkins, Livingston & Post 100 

Caleb Clark 100 

Robert Moore 100 

Addy, Hull & Co .. 100 

James Wilson 100 

As D. Breed 100 

R. W. Burnet .' 100 

B. Homans, Jr 100 

J. L. Wayne 100 

Chas. F. Wilstach 100 

H. F. West 100 

E. Kinney 100 

John Carlisle 100 

H. H. Smith 100 

B. F. Brannan 100 

White, Brother & Co 100 

L. C. Hopkins 100 

Cincinnati Gazette Co 100 

John Shillito 100 





20 OUR WORK. 


For the year ending July 18, 1866, 


we are indebted to the 


following contributors, by whose liberal and ready assistance 


the expenses of the Association were fully met: 


W. W. Scarborough, Addy, Hull & Co. 


B. Homans, Jr. 


Edw. Sargent, W. Shaffer, 


W. T. Perkins, 


G. Meldrum & Co. Cm. Gazette Co. 


H. Neave, 


D. B. Pierson & Co. Chas. E. Houghton, 


Sam'l S. Fisher, 


Robt. Moore, Jos. C. Butler, 


L. C. Hopkins, 


Howell Gano, H. W. Brown & Co. 


Hinkle & Co. 


Memphis Packet Co. E. H. Pendleton, 


W. S. Groesbeck, 


Lane & Bodley, Wm. Sumner & Co. 


Wm. Hooper, 


Perkins, Livingston & Burdsall, Bro. & Co. 


J. & J. M. Johnston, 


Post, 0. Sellew, 


Wm. Bradley, 


G. A. T. Chamberlain & Co. 


Mrs. Mary A. McLaugh- 


C. W. Starbuck, F. T. Lockwood, 


lin, 


Eobt. Clarke & Co. Jno. Shillito, 


Jno. Roberts, 


R. M. White, R. M. Bishop, 


Gilmore, Dunlap & Co. 


Kemper Bros. R. A. Holden, 


H. H. Smith, 


Chas. H. Wolff & Co. J. A. Rother & Co. 


Henry Probasco, 


S. J. B. L. Worthington, 


Traber & Aubery, 


Coffin & Son, Wm. Van Vleck, 


Thos. B. Page, 


Peter Rudolph Neff, Hinman, Hobart & Co 


Fireman's Ins. Co. 


Jas. Bugher, S. H. Burton, 


Wm. Sellew, 


T. & A. Pickering, J. W. Johnston, 


A. D. Schram, 


Enos S. Sellew. 




Further recent contributions have been 


received from 


Julius Dextou, Jno. Wynne, 


S. J. B. 


J. II. Cheever, 


E. Harwood. 


Personal co-operation we will always 


3 prefer, but from those 


who appreciate our need of financial assistance, our Treasurer, 


L. H. Swormstedt, Esq., will be pleased to hear by mail, or at his 


office, on the south-west corner of Third and Walnut streets, 


second floor. 




In behalf of the Association, 




W. J. 


B R E I '] D , P RESIDENT. 


Cincinnati, September 25, 1866. 






$§£ OFFICEES 

OF THE 

Young Men's Christian Association, 

OK 1 CIJVOINN^VTI, 

AND AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. 

JL President, 
.dtk W. J. BREED, 291 West Seventh Street. 

¥m<L. Vice-President. 

J: Rev. J AS. LISK, 360 West Seventh Street. 

f Corresponding Secretary. 

H. P. CLOUGH, ........ 80 West Fourth Street. 

Recording Secretary. 

H. II. SMITH, 51 Main Street. 

Treasurer. 

L. H. SWORMSTEDT, . . . S. W. Cor. 3rd and Walnut Sts. 

\J± dvisory Board. 

A. E. Chamberlain. R. M. Bishop. 

Rev. Erwin House. D. B. Pierson. 

W. H. Taylor, M. D. F. T. Lockwood. 

L. R. Hull. 

AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. 

COLLEGE HILL. 

F. M. DILL, President. 

C. G. STRONG, •) v . p ._• 

E. R. WILD, I V ™- p ™^nts. 

M. J. ROGERS, Secretary. 

JNO. TWEED, Treasurer. 

MT. PLEASANT. 

E. W. HOFFNER, President. 

C. B. MORGAN, Vice-President. 

W. E. DOM, Secretary. 

T. J. SNODGRASS, Treasurer. 

ELIZABETHTOWN. 

II. K. W. SMITH, President. 

J. C. MARTIN, Vice-President. 

J. P. HAIRE, Corresponding Secretary. 

GEO. LEWIS, Recording Secretary. 

II. D. TEBOW, Treasurer. 

SHARON VI LLE. 

f? JNO. PHILLIPS, President. 

( ?V 2 O J0S " HAGEinlAN ' Vice-President. 

SySsi J.CORNELL, Secretary and Treasurer. 




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